Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.
Truly some of the most irritating culture has sprung up around fanwork and fanfic in specific like… no, making something for free does not in fact make it sacrosanct or immune to criticism! Your right to “do whatever you want forever” or say “fandom is for fun” stops the second you’re being bigoted and making fan spaces unsafe for marginalized people!
"fandom is for fun" except for poc who have to deal with rampant racism and white people unable to acknowledge let alone take accountability for their racism
I almost agree with this. Criticism isnʼt censorship etc. However, then thereʼs
Your right to “do whatever you want forever” or say “fandom is for fun” stops the second you’re being bigoted
and that no, freedom of speech is still important. These authors do have the write to post whatever they want even if itʼs horrible. Just, they then have the right to be criticized for it. I do not want AO3 or worse the government to take down the fics and in that sense I support even bigotsʼ right to post whatever fanfic they want.
I just donʼt want to see any of it and I want to be able to avoid seeing any of it.
a) technically, it would cut against free speech norms to prohibit people from saying "Given that Alice wrote a fanfic I consider racist and made me uncomfortable, I think she should stop herself with any means necessary, including suicide"
b) however in fact telling people "stop it or kill yourself" over their fiction cuts somewhat against free speech norms also.
to quote the tags here…
#''let people enjoy things'' u enjoy racism? u enjoy making and flaunting racist caricatures #and making the people of color trying to engage in ur shared interests viscerally uncomfortable.? #no. stop it or kill yourself
come on. don't say this stuff. it's not constructive.
I find it incredibly interesting that nobody goes "you wrote about horror therefore you're a serial killer. Why do you think that's okay???" But then everyone squawks along when it's "if you about racism therefore you're racist". Are we all having trouble with the fact that fiction isn't real? That being exposed to an idea does not activate mind control and make you incorporate that into your belief system?
If it does then fiction does in fact make you gay and the conservatives are correct to censor it lest children be forced into sexual performances by having imagined queers kissing.
Oh no I guess that means queers can't exist in public either.
Though I guess lots of people do earnestly believe that fantasy is rape if you didn't get permission from the object of your affections. Ditto pda and everyone you're sharing space with. Raising yet more questions about whether we should legally prosecute authors for murdering totally real characters and making them fuck.
Remember kids, it's just like Jesus said, if you think about murder it's the same as having actually done it 👍
That is obviously why people with anxiety should be prosecuted and jailed for false testimony. You thought falsehoods about other people, that's the same as making real accusations against them!
There is no """right""" to judge, criticize, or otherwise be foul over things that are not real. If you have zero ""evidence"" of mistreating people except for fiction, which by definition is labeled as a pile of lies, then the actual problem is that you lack the sophisticated understanding displayed by toddlers pretending to be cats. Or are the conspiracy theorists right about kids and litter boxes?
Seems pretty obvious who's at fault for poor behavior, and it ain't the Goosebumps books.
you @daniel-r-h and @moral-autism all have such an interesting idea of what this post says esp considering that nobody left those tags LMFAO
Have a look at https://www.tumblr.com/loveshockerz/780428676187783168. It's where those tags are.
it doesnt make any sense to quote the words of a complete stranger in order to argue against the op. if we debated in the street and i suddenly said youre wrong because the cashier at the denny's in burbank said this then you would not accept that either because you have absolutely no idea who that is
